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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
full-blooded
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ There are very few full-blooded Cherokee Indians left.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Expletives are immediately deleted every time a piece of full-blooded dialogue is typed into its new system.
▪ He was a very vulnerable hard-swearing, full-blooded agnostic, or possibly an atheist.
▪ So how did the full-blooded tabby pattern arise?
▪ There is the cost of preparing a full-blooded counter-attack.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Full-blooded

Full-blooded \Full"-blood`ed\, a.

  1. Having a full supply of blood.

  2. Of pure blood; thoroughbred; as, a full-blooded horse.

Wiktionary
full-blooded

a. 1 Of purebred ancestry 2 Having a florid or ruddy complexion 3 hearty or lusty

WordNet
full-blooded
  1. adj. of unmixed ancestry; "full-blooded Native American"; "blooded Jersies" [syn: full-blood, blooded]

  2. endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health; "a hearty glow of health" [syn: hearty, lusty, red-blooded]

Usage examples of "full-blooded".

The naive frankness of the age, both when it gloried in the flesh and when it reproved sin, gives a full-blooded complexion to that time that is lacking now.

He was sort of surprised, when she led him into her well-lit Spanish Baroque front parlor, to see that she was a Junoesque gal old enough to have a streak of silver in her black braided hair, and that she looked more Indian than full-blooded Kinipai had.

No man, even a full-blooded Kutenai, could be a better husband or a more caring father.

Walter might have been an Indian, a full-blooded member of the Lenni Lenape tribe.

Over the winter, Ate had tried to teach Jack the full-blooded yell that the Mohawk gave in battle, the one that his Mohocks in London had so singularly failed to render.

And there was Mel Sager, full-blooded Mesquakie, a guitar player who has appeared with Western stars like Marty Robbins and Webb Pierce and Jim Reeves, who comes back to see his mom and his sister three-four times a year.

Lovering, nervous as the day Ulrich threw Salk in his stigmata, leads the way, letting loose a full-blooded cackle.

Theo appeared, the full-blooded Tylwyth Teg they took their orders from.

They claim to be full-blooded Zunians, and have no tradition of intermarriage with any foreign race.

Not full-blooded canid, but she's got as much of Ray in her as she does from her mother's side of the family.

I’m not talking about the special witches of our Christian lore, with their childish attributes, but the old tribe of devil’s creatures thai came out of prehistory, regular full-blooded sea witches.

Duncan Blackletter, like Doc one of the rare full-blooded Daoine Sidhe, had been a criminal mastermind on the fair world decades ago.

Even wooden swords were outlawed among the clans and Banny felt a glow within that these two full-blooded clansmen should trust him so.

The young man, full-blooded, with all the vices and natural instincts of a captain of condottieri, had very great trouble in assuming even the appearance of a Churchman's virtue.

The Consigliere was always a full-blooded Sicilian, and the fact that Hagen had been brought up as a member of the Don’s family made no difference to that tradition.